Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 35 Squadron RAF bombing the German battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU in dry-dock at Brest, France. December 18, 1941.

 

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December 19, 1944

Members of the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company 'C' pose in front of an M-10. These men were credited with knocking out four s.SS/Pz Abt. 501 Panzer VI 'King Tigers' at or around Stavelot, Belgium.
LtoR: PFC Robert H Crout (3489282), Columbia, SC; T/5 Raymond L Clements (34209815), Indiantown, FL; SGT. Clarence West, Lillie, LA; CPL. Buel C. Sheridan, Sheridan TX; SGT. Clyde B Gentry (KIA 1/18/45), Tucson, AZ; 2nd LT. Arion Revis, Klamath Falls, OR.
(Both Crout and Sheridan were wounded in action sometime after this date)
(Colour by RJM)

 

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A Father Christmas wearing a tin helmet, walks along Regent Street, London.
23 December 1940

(Photo source - 'Life' Magazine)

(Colorised by Sanna Dullaway)

 

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London children and their families, celebrating Christmas Day in an underground shelter.
December 25 1940.

 

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Observing a very old tradition in the British army, where the Privates and Corporals are served by the Sergeants and Officers at Christmas Day dinner.

Royal Corps of Signals driver Fred Finch from Oxford, is being served by his commanding officer, Captain Brian Potter from Liverpool.

Scarperia e San Piero area, Florence, Italy.
25 December 1944

(Photo by Levine. 3131 Signal Service Co., U.S. Army Signal Corp)

(Colourised by Royston Leonard)

 

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December 23, 1944

Original caption: “S/Sgt. John Francis O’Brien of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while in a foxhole, decorates a Christmas tree with C ration can and tinsel dropped from U.S. planes, in the Monschau area, Germany. Tinfoil was dropped by American planes to interrupt the enemy radar system.”

John Francis O’Brien
Birth: 7 Nov 1918 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Died: 9 Feb 2004

Photographer: Spangle. December 23rd, 1944
Photo ID: 111-SC-198234.
(Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives )
(Color by Jecinci)

 

[berkut76]

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about this photo with an exception that aircraft pictured is an Albatros D.V

 

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Two U.S. Army infantrymen of the 84th Infantry Division decorate a Christmas tree in the cellar of a home in Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. December 1944.

The division entered combat, 18 November 1944, with an attack on Geilenkirchen, Germany, as part of the larger offensive in the Roer Valley, north of Aachen. They were supported by the British Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. Taking Geilenkirchen, as part of Operation Clipper on 19 November, the division pushed forward to take Beeck (Geilenkirchen) and Lindern in the face of heavy enemy resistance, 29 November.
After a short rest, the division returned to the fight, taking Wurm and Würm (Geilenkirchen), Mullendorf, 18 December, before moving to Belgium to help stem the German winter offensive (Battle of the Bulge).

(Color Ghost of WW2)

 

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Two wounded soldiers - a Canadian and a German - light cigarettes on the muddy Passchendaele battlefield in Belgium in 1917

Photo Source - valourcanada.ca

 

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Happy Christmas everybody!


Hesdin, France, December 1917.

A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat kissing a French farm-girl under a sprig of mistletoe.

Photo Source - IWM Q 8354

 

[BravoZulu]

USN:
Submarine lookout scans the skies from his platform on the periscope shears during WW II

https://militaryimages.net/threads/warships-of-all-nations.8692/page-47

 

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Christmas Day at the Front. Italy, 25 December, 1943

A group of American infantrymen solemnly bow their heads as 1st Lt. Harvey Floyd Bell, Chaplain of 1st Bn., 180th Infantry Regiment (part of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team), says grace prior to eating Christmas dinner close to the Italian front, Demanio area.

 

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Britain's entry into World War II led many Indians to see in Germany an indispensable ally to get rid of the British Empire. This is how the legion of India was born (freies indien)

 

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German fighter Messerschmitt Bf-109 subjected to wind tunnel tests at the "Hermann Göring" Aviation Research Institute,
This being a German secret facility.

 

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Two Luftwaffe (German) airmen captured by the British. You can see from afar his bomber Heinkel-111 in flames, which crashed near Burmarsh on September 11, 1940.

 

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The 5"/25 (127 mm) battery aboard the U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) prepares to fire during the bombardment of Saipan, 15 June 1944. Note the time-fuze setters on the left side of each gun mount, each holding three "fixed" rounds of ammunition; the barrels of 20 mm machine guns at the extreme right; and triple the 14"/50 (34.5 cm) guns in the background.